Dual Panel1Behold <02005>_, the LORD'S <03068> hand <03027> is not shortened <07114> (8804)_, that it cannot save <03467> (8687)_; neither his ear <0241> heavy <03513> (8804)_, that it cannot hear <08085> (8800)_:
2But your iniquities <05771> have separated <0914> (8688) between <0996> you and your God <0430>_, and your sins <02403> have hid <05641> (8689) [his] face <06440> from you, that he will not hear <08085> (8800)_. {have hid: or, have made him hide}
3For your hands <03709> are defiled <01351> (8738) with blood <01818>_, and your fingers <0676> with iniquity <05771>_; your lips <08193> have spoken <01696> (8765) lies <08267>_, your tongue <03956> hath muttered <01897> (8799) perverseness <05766>_.
4None calleth <07121> (8802) for justice <06664>_, nor [any] pleadeth <08199> (8737) for truth <0530>_: they trust <0982> (8800) in vanity <08414>_, and speak <01696> (8763) lies <07723>_; they conceive <02029> (8800) mischief <05999>_, and bring forth <03205> (8687) iniquity <0205>_.
5They hatch <01234> (8765) cockatrice <06848>_' eggs <01000>_, and weave <0707> (8799) the spider's <05908> web <06980>_: he that eateth <0398> (8802) of their eggs <01000> dieth <04191> (8799)_, and that which is crushed <02116> breaketh out <01234> (8735) into a viper <0660>_. {cockatrice': or, adder's} {crushed...: or, sprinkled is as if there brake out a viper}
6Their webs <06980> shall not become garments <0899>_, neither shall they cover <03680> (8691) themselves with their works <04639>_: their works <04639> [are] works <04639> of iniquity <0205>_, and the act <06467> of violence <02555> [is] in their hands <03709>_.
7Their feet <07272> run <07323> (8799) to evil <07451>_, and they make haste <04116> (8762) to shed <08210> (8800) innocent <05355> blood <01818>_: their thoughts <04284> [are] thoughts <04284> of iniquity <0205>_; wasting <07701> and destruction <07667> [are] in their paths <04546>_. {destruction: Heb. breaking}
8The way <01870> of peace <07965> they know <03045> (8804) not; and [there is] no judgment <04941> in their goings <04570>_: they have made them crooked <06140> (8765) paths <05410>_: whosoever goeth <01869> (8802) therein shall not know <03045> (8804) peace <07965>_. {judgment: or, right}
9Therefore is judgment <04941> far <07368> (8804) from us, neither doth justice <06666> overtake <05381> (8686) us: we wait <06960> (8762) for light <0216>_, but behold obscurity <02822>_; for brightness <05054>_, [but] we walk <01980> (8762) in darkness <0653>_.
10We grope <01659> (8762) for the wall <07023> like the blind <05787>_, and we grope <01659> (8762) as if [we had] no eyes <05869>_: we stumble <03782> (8804) at noonday <06672> as in the night <05399>_; [we are] in desolate <0820> places as dead <04191> (8801) [men].
11We roar <01993> (8799) all like bears <01677>_, and mourn <01897> (8799) sore <01897> (8800) like doves <03123>_: we look <06960> (8762) for judgment <04941>_, but [there is] none; for salvation <03444>_, [but] it is far off <07368> (8804) from us.
12For our transgressions <06588> are multiplied <07231> (8804) before thee, and our sins <02403> testify <06030> (8804) against us: for our transgressions <06588> [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities <05771>_, we know <03045> (8804) them;
13In transgressing <06586> (8800) and lying <03584> (8763) against the LORD <03068>_, and departing away <05253> (8800) from <0310> our God <0430>_, speaking <01696> (8763) oppression <06233> and revolt <05627>_, conceiving <02029> (8780) and uttering <01897> (8774) from the heart <03820> words <01697> of falsehood <08267>_.
14And judgment <04941> is turned away <05253> (8717) backward <0268>_, and justice <06666> standeth <05975> (8799) afar off <07350>_: for truth <0571> is fallen <03782> (8804) in the street <07339>_, and equity <05229> cannot <03201> (8799) enter <0935> (8800)_.
15Yea, truth <0571> faileth <05737> (8737)_; and he [that] departeth <05493> (8804) from evil <07451> maketh himself a prey <07997> (8711)_: and the LORD <03068> saw <07200> (8799) [it], and it displeased <03415> (8799) <05869> him that [there was] no judgment <04941>_. {maketh...: or, is accounted mad} {it displeased...: Heb. it was evil in his eyes}
16And he saw <07200> (8799) that [there was] no man <0376>_, and wondered <08074> (8709) that [there was] no intercessor <06293> (8688)_: therefore his arm <02220> brought salvation <03467> (8686) unto him; and his righteousness <06666>_, it sustained <05564> (8804) him.
17For he put on <03847> (8799) righteousness <06666> as a breastplate <08302>_, and an helmet <03553> of salvation <03444> upon his head <07218>_; and he put on <03847> (8799) the garments <0899> of vengeance <05359> [for] clothing <08516>_, and was clad <05844> (8799) with zeal <07068> as a cloke <04598>_.
18According to <05921> [their] deeds <01578>_, accordingly he will repay <07999> (8762)_, fury <02534> to his adversaries <06862>_, recompence <01576> to his enemies <0341> (8802)_; to the islands <0339> he will repay <07999> (8762) recompence <01576>_. {deeds: Heb. recompences}
19So shall they fear <03372> (8799) the name <08034> of the LORD <03068> from the west <04628>_, and his glory <03519> from the rising <04217> of the sun <08121>_. When the enemy <06862> shall come in <0935> (8799) like a flood <05104>_, the Spirit <07307> of the LORD <03068> shall lift up a standard <05127> (8790) against him. {lift...: or, put him to flight}
20And the Redeemer <01350> (8802) shall come <0935> (8804) to Zion <06726>_, and unto them that turn <07725> (8802) from transgression <06588> in Jacob <03290>_, saith <05002> (8803) the LORD <03068>_.
21As for me, this [is] my covenant <01285> with them, saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068>_; My spirit <07307> that [is] upon thee, and my words <01697> which I have put <07760> (8804) in thy mouth <06310>_, shall not depart <04185> (8799) out of thy mouth <06310>_, nor out of the mouth <06310> of thy seed <02233>_, nor out of the mouth <06310> of thy seed's <02233> seed <02233>_, saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068>_, from henceforth and for <05704> ever <05769>_.